Democracy Quotes

Without the power of the Industrial Union behind it, Democracy can only enter the State as the victim enters the gullet of the Serpent.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

It seems to me very important to the idea of democracy to the country and to the world eventually that all men and women stand equal under the sky.

And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

Democracy can survive anything except Democrats

Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame.

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

One voice is tiny, and alone it cannot be heard above the din of politics as usual. The peoples voice, when it cries as one, is a great roar.

There are many democracies in our Arab and Islamic countries, but unfortunately, they are all false democracies.

Since Israel is a democratic state surrounded by essentially undemocratic states which have sworn her destruction, those interested in democracy everywhere must support Israel's existence.

We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.

The greatest fallacy of democracy is that everyone's opinion is worth the same.

I knew I was alone in a way that no earthling has ever been before.

Compassion is the use of public funds to buy votes

In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!

Democracy doesn't begin at the top; it begins at the bottom, when flesh-and-blood human beings fight to rekindle what Arlo Guthrie calls 'The Patriot's Dream.

Democracy is in the blood of Musalmans, who look upon complete equality of manhood [mankind]…[and] believe in fraternity, equality and liberty.

Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?

Democracy is not a form of government, but a form of social organisation.

Through the ballot, we can defend our democracy from the threat of dictatorship.

A republic is not an easy form of government to live under, and when the responsibility of citizenship is evaded, democracy decays and authoritarianism takes over.

In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of the majority is supreme.

The true slogan of a true democracy is not 'Let the Government do it' but rather, 'let's do it ourselves'.... This is the spirit of a people dedicated to helping themselves and one another.

You can't have a people's democracy as long as corporations are considered people.

The idea of democracy has been stripped of it moral imperatives and come to denote hollowness and hypocrisy.

The Constitution is the sole source and guaranty of national freedom.

There is no great force for change, for peace, for justice and democracy, for inclusive economic growth than a world of empowered women.

Democracy does not require perfect equality, but it does require that citizens share in a common life.

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

Propaganda is to a democracy what violence is to a dictatorship.

No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under.

The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes a Titus or Marc Aurelius; the people is often Nero, but never Marc Aurelius.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

All of my novels are democracies.

When a just cause reaches its flood-tide...whatever stands in its way must fall before its overwhelming force.

Democracy depends on information circulating freely in society.

The election is not a time to discuss serious issues.

Winning Democracy for the Negro is winning the war for Democracy

Hong Kong is not just a global financial center. It's also a place with a lot of teens and youth who love freedom, democracy, and human rights.

Democracy is now currently defined in Europe as a 'country run by Jews,'

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

The only negative thing in Pakistan is not having a democracy.

Both love and democracy depend on voice -- having a voice and also the resonance that makes it possible to speak and be heard.

Integrity is the lifeblood of democracy. Deceit is a poison in its veins.

True Democracy makes no enquiry about the color of the skin, or the place of nativity. Wherever it sees a man, it recognizes a being endowed by his Creator with original inalienable rights

In every village there will arise a miscreant to establish the most grinding tyranny by calling himself the people.